Comments on: iPhone App Store news: iTunes Bookshelf screenshot shows Mobipocket, Plucker and HTML among other formats

By: Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 17/07/2008 « Eoin Purcell’s Blog

Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 17/07/2008 « Eoin Purcell’s Blog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:43:38 +0000

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By: Zachary Bedell

Zachary Bedell — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:42:57 +0000

Indeed, BookShelf is just my little app, nothing Apple’s been directly involved with.

That said, a few clarifications. I do support non-DRM’d MobiPocket format. There’s a bug in the initial version which causes some of the newer Mobi files to crash, but I’ve fixed that and will have a release to Apple today (13-Jul).

I’m also in talks with several online publishers to get support for BookShelf’s ShelfServer integrated into their sites. Once that’s put together, it will be possible to download books directly into BookShelf from any publisher who cares to support the protocol.

The protocol that the iPhone app uses to talk to servers is open and documented on BookShelf’s bugtracker wiki linked from my website.

(And to anyone reading who’d like to setup a public server, drop me an email. I’d be delighted to lend a hand if I can.)

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:20:34 +0000

Hi, MacVita. Thanks for the info. Looks as if Mobi just ain’t there in the App Store yet. But soon, I’d hope. David

By: MacVicta

MacVicta — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:40:48 +0000

It’s just an iPhone/iPod touch third party application available through the App Store (which can be accessed from iTunes and iPhones/iPod touches). It was created by developer Zachary Bedell and sells for $9.99. It has nothing to do with Apple officially.

http://www.iphonebookshelf.com/